JUST KILL ME!

I sooo forgot to post this.. it was the worst moment of my life.... not turning 30, not being pregnant at 16 or having a baby with severe medical problems at 17, not losing my grandmother a few years ago, or the moment I found out my best friend had been murdered (okay, that tops pretty high up there too) anyway. I'm getting overly dramatic here.. but it was pretty bad.. it was just one of those moments in time that actually stop you dead in your tracks and the world stops for just long enough for everything to go in slow motion around you... you can actually hear yourself breathing, and feel yourself thinking because you are so confused it takes some time to process... and here it is.... Dylan wanted to go bowling SO BAD the last few times he's been at our house... but bowling is pretty darn expensive especially when bowling 3 games each only taken an hour and costs you just shy of $50.. it's just not a form of entertainment I'd like to drop that much dough on.. but it's fun... so finally we got to go on Friday night. Cosmic bowling night.. we get there and there is a half hour wait, so we didn't have our bowling shoes so we put our name on the list and rushed home to get our shoes. We get back and we still wound up waiting almost another half hour.. so we get our lane and next to us is this guy bowling by himself.. obviously someone who is there all the time.. he just walked in, didn't have to wait for a lane, nothing.. most of the time one of the people that worked there was sitting talking with him about his "game". On the other side we had a couple probably in their early 20's, next to them was a rowdy GROUP of mostly guys and a handful of girls probably in their mid 20's.... so we started our games... I got my highest score ever 164, I was damn proud, Tim hit every pin except the last frame and wound up with a 195 so of course he was totally ticked... Dylan did okay.. he was bowling in the low 100's which for a 13 year old isn't bad... but the world stopping, slow motion, punch in the gut moment happened somewhere during our 2nd game... I stepped up to bowl just as both the guys on either side of me stepped up to bowl. The "professional" guy on my right was already walking up to throw the ball and the guy next to me looked at me and said "go ahead m'am" OHHHHH MY FUCKING GOD KILL ME NOW! someone called me m'am! What the hell? I'm 30 not 70!!! The guy couldn't have been 5-7 years younger than me and he calls me m'am! Kill me.. just kill me... horrible.. just horrible...

I'm still amazed......

So today I went walking at lunch and looked down and saw I'm wearing a pair of capri's that I bought during last summer. It still amazes me that from season to season I can still fit in the same clothes and they still fit pretty much the same! This WW stuff has me thinking all the time about my body! It's so strange to be able to grab something off the shelf in my closet and KNOW it will fit and will look okay on me! A M A Z I N G!!!!

Religous delemma's.....

yes, so last night Tim was cleaning the garage and asked me if I wanted to decorate for Easter. With his birthday party coming up in two weekends I figured it would be nice to have the house decorated for Easter considering Easter is the very next day (April 8th). So I brought out all the little bunnies and chicks and put them in various places around the house. I didn't take my allergy pills last night so as I lay awake thinking somehow I got to thinking about Jesus hanging on the cross dead and rising again 3 days later which is now our Easter Sunday. So my question is, how do we know he was dead to begin with? With medical science we now know that we buried George Washington alive. He had leach therapy and they sucked so much blood out of him, his heartbeat was so faint they thought he was dead. They buried him and years later, unburied him and discovered scratch marks in the top of his coffin.. this must have happened time and time again because eventually people were buried with a string around their finger which was then attached to a bell and someone had to stand watch in the graveyard to make sure that within a few days that the bell did not ring. If it did, they unburied the person.. hence the phrase "dead ringer". Anyway.. so Jesus was whipped for hours bleeding all over the place then he had to drag his cross miles bleeding the whole way, then they nailed him to the cross, again bleeding all over the place... so where is there proof that he stopped breathing that his heart stopped beating and he was clincally dead? We have no proof... in fact, while we are on the topic of the big J.C. I'd like to know what person in today's day and age would believe any teenager that came up preggers and declared they had never had relations with any man.. yeah right.. sorry, I'm having issues in religious beliefs today... I believe that humans need to follow rules and laws, otherwise we'd be out there killing each other over road rage and other stupid things, and I'm all for treating others how you would want to be treated.. but believing stories when only 1 in 5,000 people could actually write in that day and time... I dunno.. leaves a tons of holes in those stories.. too many questions, too many medical facts that today are common knowledge.. hmmmm any comments?

a weekend with the boys...

and here we are again ladies and gents, facing another weekend with the boys! So again I'll be trying to get out of work on Friday at 4 so I can zoom around from Elgin to Crystal Lake, then up to Round Lake Beach, and back to Carpentersville all in around 3 hours time.. ughh I'm hating that drive.. but whatever.. it's gotta be done. soooo what to do with the boys *this* weekend.. well we have all 3 for the entire weekend sooooo I know Tim wants to go buy some new XBOX games and an extra controller, I want to buy a new cell phone, and I want to take them to Panera to eat! Yumm!! Don't know what else.. it will probably be gorgeous out too! ughh oh and Tim already said "no Violet" ughh I feel bad for her.. locked up all weekend with no kids!

My husband the GODFATHER, Leif the pole annilator, Dylan the homework escapee, and Sam, umm and Sam... uhh yeah, the good kid!!

I have absolutely NOTHING to write about Sam. He was his normal happy kid self this weekend. That kid just goes with the flow and doesn't say boo about anything.

ANYWAY, the big news is that Tim was asked to be the GODFATHER of Irina (my cousins 3rd child that was just born on Valentines Day). My sister will be the Godmother and already it's been a whirlwind of plans... planning the baptism that is! We're trying to hold it at our family church Miller Chapel in Johnsburg. That has been fun trying to get through all the layers of people whom we need to contact in getting permission to use it, a priest to come and actually perform the baptism etc etc etc. Then come the plans for the where to go to eat afterwards.. after all it's all about the food, right? j/k So first it was the Warsaw Inn or another place in Arlington Heights, but now it sounds as if Heather has decided on the Barn of Barrington which I'm perfectly happy with considering that is seriously 10 minutes from our house and Tim & I had our wedding reception there!! We love it.. it's beautiful, and has some meaning to our family.. so all in all, it's a great match.. oh and not terribly far from the chapel either! lol!

Okay on to Leif.. soooooo Tim decided to bring the kids to his work this weekend just to give them something to do and of course they found plenty to do.. I'll doubt that Leif will ever live this down.. but yeah.. he hit a pole in the middle of the warehouse! lol! "I didn't see it" is all we hear!

Dylan..yeah he came to my house this weekend with specific instructions that he was grounded until he got all his homework done.. yeah I'm reading the text book *TRYING* to figure it out and I'm totally lost.. so I called Pam and sure enough she was home AND willing to come over! she was our savior.. she came over in less than 5 minutes and had us working on the homework and actually understanding it! Go Pam! lol! We got it all done and I *think* he probably had to have gotten 100% on all the work we did! He was rechecking answers and everything! Go Dylan.. but then on Sunday afternoon right before his dad was set to pick him up, Tim found a page of homework he didn't do.. and of course Dylan is MIA! ughhh so I walked around the hood, didn't find him. I got in the truck and found him at the park and told him to get his butt home.. he told me he had already done that homework and he had.. but I was mad at first!

Had a fun weekend, did a ton of walking. Seriously.. Saturday I had to have walked between 10-15 miles.. I was walking the whole day.. then another 4 miles on Sunday morning, then another quick 4 miles last night with Julie before her WW weigh in!

I dedicate this song 2 my 1 & only son

so here I am again blogging about a song... I guess I listen to songs and relate to them for some reason... this song has stuck with me since my husband and I attended a wedding for his friend Mac, it was his mother/son dance song. It was so fitting for the two of them, because for Mac growing up it was just the two of them.... and she was one of those strong women who taught her son a ton about life. Dylan's father is a product of a relationship much the same with his mother, however, as much as she would want her son to have a simple life.. it just hasn't worked out that way... so here they are, the lyrics that I'd want my son to carry with him into "manhood" which has already begun... Dylan I love you!!


Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd LyricsSong: Simple Man Lyrics

Mama told me when I was young
Come sit beside me, my only son
And listen closely to what I say.
And if you do this It will help you some sunny day.
Take your time... Don't live too fast,
Troubles will come and they will pass.
Go find a woman and you'll find love,
And don't forget son,
There is someone up above.

[Chorus]
And be a simple kind of man.
Be something you love and understand.
Be a simple kind of man.
Won't you do this for me son,
If you can?Forget your lust for the rich man's gold
All that you need is in your soul,
And you can do this if you try.
All that I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied.

[Chorus]

Boy, don't you worry... you'll find yourself.
Follow you heart and nothing else.
And you can do this if you try.
All I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied.

[Chorus]

The "make it or break it" phrase... 8 words that jerked my attention

When I found out Tim had cheated on me when we first started dating, I always thought that there would be a phrase a sentence, something that would be the "make it or break it" phrase.... whatever those words were, I never did hear them and we continued our relationship and got married. We've now been married for almost 9 years and every once in awhile I still get amazed at the simple things Tim will bring to my attention that throws my entire being out of alignment just long enough to realize sometimes I just don't see the bigger picture.. and here was a perfect example.. for those of you who know Tim, you know he is a man of few words. He's just not a big talker. He talks, but he's not overly chatty as I've always been my entire life. So last night we had one crazy night.. I'm not exactly sure how to explain what went down last night because honestly, I don't know if I'll ever know myself what happened. It involved my 2 nephews and their father, their fathers girlfriend and her daughter. I got a call to go pick them up, all I could think about was getting to them.. I stopped downstairs just long enough to ask Tim if he was going to come with me.. he did. On the way he was chatting about who the hell knows what, and it was frusterating me.. I just was concentrating on getting to my boys, and getting them out of whatever situation it was.. so after everything Tim and I are talking and I asked him WTF he was talking about on the way over to get them and he says "I was trying to get your mind off of everything" and I told him then that he needs to realize whenever there is a problem with any of those 3 boys that I go into "mom" mode, all I can think about is them until I know they are okay.. I can't go into some "chat" about some co-worker, or the dishes in the sink.. I'm totally focused, I hear nothing around me, it's just my mom mode.. I told him how much all 3 of our boys mean to me, the bond we have, and how I would die if there wasn't something I did to prevent them from getting hurt physically/emotionally... so Tim says "you don't think I love those boys too" that was IT for me.. it's something that throws my entire perspective off of my entire thinking of my husband.. it's not as if I don't realize he has a heart, and he hangs out with these kids for hours on end playing xbox and other games.. but having it said out loud like that just makes me see what a great guy I married... it's funny how you learn something new every day even about the man you've lived with for almost 9 years!

nothing to report....

nothing to report... seriously.. Tim is sick with what I had, half my office is sick as well, ummm I dunno if I wrote that I got on the news on my trip... long story.. basically we saw a few news crews at the airport the day we left and they came and interviewed me... what else.. Blue will be home in a month, and that's great because I am really starting to miss him.. it's horrible. I think going to see him was why I miss him.. because last year he went with us and came home with us.. this time I left him there.. very hard.

Nicky Scargill found me on myspace, so that's cool! Someone I keep losing touch with.. seems to be a ton of changes in her life since I last talk to her so I'm curious to hear what's all happened and how it played out.

this excuse takes THE CAKE....

Yeah.. so here it is... I announced some time ago my cousin Heather was preggers with her 3rd.. yup.. Irina was born on Valentines Day... a whopping 10lbs 10oz after pooping.. so bascially a 11lb child... guess there was no world rockin or Valentines Dinner for her hubbie that night!

just got back from AZ. We left earlier because our flight got cancelled, then got back late last night.. back to work tomorrow.. the trip was eventful, as usual, for our family.. we did the usual pool, food, pool, outing, food, mall, etc. VERY long story, my sister & younger nephew wound up coming home early, but we got to keep Leif there. We still had a good time just hanging out.. beats being in Chicago at work in the cold!

Went to my hoochie mama store... they were closing in less than an hour and I only found 2 things I wanted to buy and they really didn't even fit right.. not sure why I even did buy them.. oh well..

The SISTERHOOD rules.... 1 strike YOU'RE OUT!

yeahhhhh so my sister's exs new girlfriend decides to call my sister yesterday.. yeah not the best of situations.. but my sister actually did talk to her and I'm glad she did.. Michael is cheating on her too.. like we said what 6-7 months ago when I saw him with some other woman... yeah.. okay.. so it's a co-worker of hers and his current live in girlfriend wants my sister to be there for her.. umm where the fuck were you when I needed you and I was going through this??? ohhh yeah you were fucking my husband! that's right! hey, once you fuck a married man... you are kicked to the sisterhood curb. see ya...

it's not over.....

Some of you may know about our big fight at the end of July. It was seriously over that night.. our marriage, our lives together, everything we had worked 10 years for was done and I could have walked away with confidence that I had done the right thing. I packed some clothes up, grabbed my dog and walked out the door.. fighting with Tim for another couple hours after that point was never part of the plan, or calling the cops, and I'm sure in retrospect not any of the sequence that happened that night was party of anyone's plan except the BIG PLAN. Everything happens for a reason.. seeing my sister walk away from her marriage and move on, Michelle walk away from her marriage, and a few other friends who recently just broke finally walked away from a failing relationship after YEARS gave me strength in the realization that I COULD DO IT. I could be on my own, I would be okay, I would survive, I would thrive, and have less regrets. There is enough time after death to worry about regrets, lets not waste anymore time on earth doing just that. I recently went to dinner with some girlfriends and told them the story and then last night I watched the movie "the affair" and everything the wife in that movie said to her husband was me to a T... Everything the husbands french co-worker said to him was our relationship to a T.. they just don't see... but here I am at Valentines Day this year hoping that next year I won't be feeling the same as I have the last 10 years in this relationship. So here it is.. my anthem for my relationship with my husband in the now.. it's not over...

Chris Daughtry It's Not Over Lyrics
It's Not OverI was blown away
What could I sayIt all seemed to make sense.
You've taken away everything
And I can't deal with that.

I try to see the good in life.
But good things in life are hard to find.
I'll blow it away, blow it away
Can we make this something good?
(Well I'll try to do to it right this time around)

Let's start over,
Try to do it right this time around
It's not over
Cause a part of me is dead and in the ground.
This love is killin me
But you're the only oneIt's not over.

I've taken all I can takeAnd I cannot wait
We're wasting too much time
Being strong and holding on
Can't let it bring us down
My life with you means everything
So I won't give up that easilyI'll blow it away, blow it away

Can we make this something good?
Cause it's all misunderstood(Well I'll try to do to it right this time around)
Let's start over,
Try to do it right this time around
It's not overCause a part of me is dead and in the ground.
This love is killin me
But you're the only one
It's not over.
We can't let this get away
Let it out, let it out
Don't get caught up in yourself
Let it out.Let's start over
Well try to do to it right this time around
Its not over
Cause a part of me is dead and in the ground.
This love is killin me
But you're the only oneIt's not over.
Lets start over Its not over
This love is killin me But you're the only one
It's not over

the angels are on a low hummmmmm

yup.. finally got under 152.. thank god.. I can eat on our trip! lol! ;) the trick?? yeah working out less.. go figure.

dropping like a lead fart...

wellllll there are several things dropping like a lead fart around me... this weekend was a total bust.. from getting Tim's Christmas gift which wound up not fitting him, to going out for Michelle's bachelorette party where she wound up sick in the bathroom for 2 hours, to the first 12 seconds of the superbowl giving us total false hope and the Bears choking allowing the colts to win, to the fact that I actually won $200 on the superbowl.. not the way I wanted to... to the way that Tim is not on speaking terms with anyone in the world this morning... yeah that's really fun.... what else.. oh to my weight.. I've been struggling with for the past month and it's just not dropping this time around. This weekend the scale actually read 152.6 then I got back on and it said 154.4.. I can't win.. I'm going to take it easy this week.. just do mall walking.. and I was going to be good this week.. but I brought all of my extra superbowl food to work.. and yeah I've been eating it. So there you have it.. the weekend was a total bust, I can't wait to get on that plane in 8 days... SUN SUN SUN here I come!

close but no cigar...

so... I went and faced that darn WW scale on Saturday morning. I went Friday night and ran 4 miles. I could have ran more but I had to run to get Dylan, so I was literally out of time. It was pretty amazing though because by the time I hit 3 1/2 miles I had this pace just going that I could have just kept up with for as long as I decided to. It was like standing, it wasn't any big deal to keep watching tv, listening to my mp3 player and running.. I know my neighbor Adam said eventually it would get to be like that.. but I had my doubts. So Friday I had to go #2 3 times, plus I went again right away Sat morning.. not to mention all the water I drank all week so I figured I should have lost a little something during the week. On Saturday morning I weighed myself at home and was 153.1... okay that's good at least it's close to the 152 mark. It appears as if I've been trying.. so I grab the lightest clothes I could find.. a tiny thong, a sports bra made of pratically nothing, a t-shirt so thin you could see through it, and the lightest workout pants I own. I get to WW and get on the scale and it's 153.2.. umm there is no way that my clothes only weighed .1 of a lb.. but hey WHO AM I TO ARGUE! I'll take it! lol! So Sally my leader immediately starts asking what's up.. I explain the holidays, a 30th birthday, mixed with changing my pcos treatments just wasn't good timing but I was working on it.. so she asks if I want to up my goal weight. I made my goal weight what it is for a reason, not so I could blow it off and wind up being a fat cow again, thanks.. no I know I had to pay this month, I'll pay. I thought *maybe* I could get under 152, I tried, didn't make it.. oh well.. that's fine. I found a coupon for $10 for LT members and I used that... so if I chuck it up to a $10 penalty fee for all the free meetings I've had in the last year, it was worth it. Plus I learned something for next year.. don't mix 30th birthdays, the holidays, and pocs treatments! lol! ;)

So of course after that, the journal flew out the window.. went to Angelica's 2nd birthday at House of Hunan... buffett! OMG did I eat.. then the cake came out.. my favorite Jewel cake.. so yummy.. then dinner at Arby's even though I wasn't even hugnry I couldn't pass up a hot ham and cheese.. oh and choc chip cookies.. oh and Sunday dinner at Toco El Norte.. yeah it was a fun eating weekend! lol! I'm a food addict, I know!

MY HERO, DA BEARS, and the angels will sing if it kills me...

Well yesterday was a pretty eventful day.. A co-worker of Tim's had a heart attack. Tim found him 5 minutes later and did CPR on him until the paramedics came. The paramedics got him going again on the way to the hospital, but he his still not concious so we will see how this progresses. I guess this is just another example of why everyone needs to live life to the fullest. Each day is truely a gift...

DA BEARS.. are going to SUPERBOWL!! whoo-hoo It's been 21 years in the making.. but here we are again! once per generation, does that sound right? I was in 4th grade and my son Dylan is in 7th.. I guess so! lol! Either way, Tim and I are having a superbowl party!

Tim and I went to the Cardinal on Randall this weekend! Their machines are great! I love that place. I'd rather drive there to work out if I can. Maybe on the weekends we'll do that. I ran on Saturday (and mall walked that morning), then ran again on Monday. The scale finally said 153.8 this am. I'll still have to pay for my meeting this month, but oh well.. what can I do? I'll just do my best the rest of this week and try to get down a little more before Saturday and go weigh in. No biggie. I know I'm back on track and will continue. I'd really like to get down to my personal goal of 140 someday... someday.... someday...

Blue is doing well in AZ. My parents love having him down there. It sounds like they enjoy his little antics!

the road to success can BITE MY ARSE!

Yeah so the first week back on program was great.. got down 5lbs no problem.. after that the scale has climbed and I've been doing really well. Walking a few days per week, going to the gym a few days per week, using my workout DVDs a few days per week.. so I'm thinking I'm doing well and the scale is YELLING at me that I'm not doing that well and it SUCKS! So here I am back up to 156 and holding.. I can pray all I want.. I'm not making it under 152 by the 31st.. it doesn't matter.. it's just NOT HAPPENING... so today I left work at lunch and worked out.. OMG what a difference. I had so much more energy, got through my 3 mile run like I'd been running it every day, did some weights/machines, some ball exercises, even some stretching.. took my shower and got back to work in an hour and 45 minutes.. not bad! I'm hoping I'm back on track now! Also got what I'll call a TOM on Sunday night... so maybe that's why I'm up?? I dunno!

running back to.... to... ME, I guess!

So I went running last week twice, was going to go over the weekend to check out Tim's gym.. never got around to it.. I did, however, walk Friday, Saturday AND Sunday plus we worked around the house a ton... anyway.. I'm trying to flip flop my points so I eat more points during the day so yesterday I had eaten I think 13 points by the time I got to the gym (normally I'm around 9-10 points by 5pm) . I got to the gym and was just dreading running, I get there and the place is packed.. had to park really far down.. no biggie I'm coming to work out the walk will do me good.. get in there and there is not one open treadmill.. okay I'll go change when I get out maybe there will be one.. yeah there were two.. I grabbed one and started running.. there was a girl running next to me at a pace I normally walk at (walk FAST at, but none the less walk at) and to me she looked to be in much better shape than me.. but for whatever reason we kept along with each other. I ran 2 miles than stopped and walked a bit, then ran, walked, sprinted, walked.. I wound up burning 400 calories, jogging/walking over 3.5 miles all in under 45 minutes.. and the best part.. I left feeling freakin great! I was estatic.. I wasn't tired, I wasn't sore.. nothing.. it was wonderful! Best part.. I got on the scale today and was down to 155.2! whoo-hoo.. I might be able to actually weigh in this month without paying.. we can pray...

and hopefully this round I'll actually keep losing and get down to that 140 I've been waiting for. I think I changed my personal goal weight to 135 because even when I was 141 I was still feeling a bit on the pudge side. We'll see how this round goes!

Blue left last Wednesday for AZ!! And finally it's getting cold her so I don't feel so bad.. the first couple days after he left it was in the 50's! I was like "I DID NOT SEND MY DOG AWAY FROM ME FOR 3 MONTH SO IT COULD BE 50 DEGREES HERE IN CHICAGO"!! lol! He did well on the drive, my mom said the last day he was a bit antsy, but other than that he has been really good.. my sister warned me that I might not get that dog back and I think that there is some truth to that because my mom is totally ga-ga for that dog now! ughhh Anyway, we're going to AZ in February, I found tickets for $153 round trip.. couldn't pass it up.. I can't wait to see my little guy.. only 5 more weeks! lol!

i'm going to make those f'in angels sing.. I swear it...

I'm back at it today.. back on the wagon.. determined to make my personal goal weight of 140! Those angels will sing one day soon.. I got my new WW scale that is digital.. I just have to set it up to calculate bmi and body fat % and I'm in business. At least for now I can actually tell if I'm 150 or 155! yikes.. got on this am and was 160.2.. yeah I have a ways to go to get to go back to WW. I have a funny feeling I'll be paying for this month at least...

Blue leaves for AZ tomorrow for 3 months.. I'm REALLY upset about it.. but it's better for him.. had all his shots/tests on Friday... so now I just have to pack up all his little doggie stuff and cart him over to my mom's tonight and it's done.. poor little man. I miss him already. I just know it's a better thing for him to be with my parents in the nice warm AZ weather vs here in sub zero temps.

haven't run at all since the 8th, my new lQQk, and my husbands balls belong in a vice

yes, there it is.. I was off for 9 days... got very little accomplished including having my IUD put in which I really needed the time off to do.. but of course every time I called the office assured me once I got my now 2 week late period that 17 pregnancy tests confirmed was still on it's way that I could be squeezed in between 2 appointments.. "it won't take long" but sure as shit, I'm peeing on the stick and bleeding at the same time on Friday morning, ran to call the drs office and of course.. Tuesday at 2:15.. UMM NO I've explained my situation several times and you assured me I could be squeezed in. I'm off all day today and tomorrow, I can come in any time.. did someone cancel.. "nope people don't call to cancel until after their appt was suppossed to happen" UMM YEAH THAT'S BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE RETARDS AND DON'T CALL THE DAY BEFORE TO REMIND PEOPLE OF THEIR APPOINTMENTS THAT THEY HAVE TO MAKE 3 MONTHS IN ADVANCE THAT THEY ALL PROBABLY FORGET ABOUT! ASSHOLES. okay.. anyway. so I never go to the gym not once during those 9 days.. then Monday night I was going to go and wound up working late and not being able to go, yesterday I had the blasted IUD appointment. After that I called my husband told him I was putting his ball in a vice then grabbing an old rusty wire hanger and shoving it up his dick hole and spinning it once every 3-4 seconds.

OKAY and on to my new lQQk, I saw a pic of Cameron Diaz and she has her hair super dark brown red tone with about the same cut as me.. so one Friday night I went over to Theresa's and Steph came over and did all of our hair. I like it.. Tim doesn't.. not for sure how many people like it but it's either you love it or you hate it... there is no in between with this color.

ran 9 miles this week!

Yes, I have this plan of running my 3 miles at 5.5mph and I've actually gone up to 3 1/4 miles Wednesday at 5.5mph. I figured once that starts getting easy (ha!) then I can up that mph to 5.6 or 5.7 and take it from there. Yeah, so Mon/Wed/Fri this week I ran 3 miles each day totally 9 miles PLUS walking and other activities during the week. I have to start working on weight training!